Cannes 2016: Palme d’Or lineup announced
The eagerly awaited Official Selection for this year’s 69th Cannes Film Festival (11-22 May) was announced in Paris on Thursday morning. As previously revealed,...
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27 May 2024
Cannes 2024: Sean Baker’s Anora wins Palme d’Or
The 77th Cannes Film Festival concluded with a shift to the new generation. Notable awards went to Sean Baker’s Anora and Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof The Seed of the Sacred Fig.
21 May 2023
Cannes 2023: Homecoming review
★★★☆☆ Catherine Corsini arrives in Cannes with Homecoming, an adeptly told family drama which boasts some stand out performances. Fifteen years after a tragic incident, Kheìdidja (Aissatou Diallo Sagna), a single mother, returns to Corsica with her two daughters to look after the children of a wealthy family.
29 May 2022
Cannes 2022: Ruben Östlund wins second Palme d’Or
Cannes’ 75th edition came to a close with a Palme d’Or for Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness. It was a fittingly ironic moment for the wealthy, star-studded audience to applaud a satire that eviscerates the wealthy and celebrity-obsessed upper-classes. It was Östlund’s second Palme d’Or and, although well-deserved, felt symptomatic of a festival which was fine at best.
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Cannes 2015: ‘The Wakhan Front’ review
★★★☆☆ A black dog lopes through an apparently empty camp amidst a lifeless landscape. This eerie intro to Clément Cogitore’s fascinatingly spooky The Wakhan...
Cannes 2015: ‘The Treasure’ review
★★★☆☆ Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu won the Un Certain Regard prize back in 2009 with his black comedy Police, Adjective. This year he entered...
Cannes 2015: ‘Rams’ review
★★★★☆ A story of filial rivalry in a remote valley in Iceland, Grímur Hákonarson’s second narrative feature Rams (Hrútar, 2015) begins as an oddball...
Cannes 2015: Jacques Audiard’s ‘Dheepan’ wins Palme d’Or
The results are in. The closing ceremony of the 68th edition of the Cannes film festival began more like the Oscars than the glamorous,...
Cannes 2015: ‘Dheepan’ review
★★★☆☆ Following the impressive The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005), the excellent A Prophet (2010) and the melodramatic Rust and Bone (2012), Jacques...
Cannes 2015: ‘The Measure of a Man’ review
★★★☆☆ A drama about a dignified man struggling to make ends meet minus the usual tragedy, histrionics and melodrama, Stéphane Brizé’s The Measure of...
Cannes 2015: ‘Mon Roi’ review
★★☆☆☆ Mon Roi (My King, 2015) is a colourful yet clichéd relationship drama from French actor and director Maïwenn, playing today in competition at...
